March 2012
“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that...”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
(via happyacres)
And that is the truth, Ruth.
(via statelyxanadu)
February 2012
TELLER: HOW MAGICIANS MANIPULATE THE HUMAN MIND →
criminalwisdom:
1. Exploit pattern recognition. 2. Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. 3. It’s hard to think critically if you’re laughing. 4. Keep the trickery outside the frame. 5. To fool the mind, combine at least two tricks. 6. Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself. 7. If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely.
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“Beauty is not compatible with modern life. So this is the last time I’ll deal...”
– Gustave Flaubert, from a letter to Madame Roger des Genettes, December 1864 (via proustitute)
The New Inquiry: Sunday Reading →
thenewinquiry:
By Aaron Bady
Political Movements in Bahrain, Past, Present, and Future
What We Owe to Each Other: An Interview with David Graeber, Part 1 and Part 2.
The Moscow Protests, part one, two, three, and four
When Oakland Is Under Attack, What Do We Do?
Barack Obama…
